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Choke: The LiC pick of the week The wide releases are a mixed bag this week. I recommend you check out A Thousand Years of Good Prayers which comes to LA this weekend or Choke which opens in limited release. Opening wide: Eagle Eye. Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan play two innocent strangers who are blackmailed into participating in a terrorist plot.

Once I read a statement that said, “You will be the same person in 10-years time that you are today apart from the books that you read and the people that you meet.” The idea being that it is the influence of people more learned or more experienced than you that teaches you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York Moving right along with the Fall Preview. Here’s what’s coming up in October. Once again, all dates are subject to change based on studio whim. LiC’s picks are starred. October 3 An American Carol.

Researchers from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno are part of a $4.674 million study by Gas Technology Institute to economically convert any leafy or woody biomass into a uniform, densified feedstock that can be easily fed into any thermal gasifer or pryolyzer for conversion into syngas, fuels and value-added chemicals.

Maxim magazine has had it up to here with celebs professing to give back. Here’s the mag’s list of top do-goodie-two-shoes and our interpretations of their respective causes/offenses. Our one beef with this list: Pearl Jam’s Ticketmaster “cause” is long gone; couldn’t Maxim have come up with something else — like, say, the band’s misbegotten advocacy of Ralph Nader in 2000?

SPOS #105 - Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - +1 (206) 666-6056 - Customer Service Is The New Marketing May 25, 2008 7:10 AM Posted by Mitch Joel Welcome to episode #105 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. This episode is a real treat.

A chill wind is blowing in this nation. … Every day, the air waves are filled with warnings, veiled and unveiled threats, spewed invective and hatred directed at any voice of dissent. And the public, like so many relatives and friends that I saw this weekend, sit in mute opposition and fear.

Spring is here! Okay, not in my apartment, but I've read that it's here, some places, apparently, and with it, the return of what's left of baseball, the American game. Sports in general, and baseball in particular, have a spotty history in the movies.

Tina Fey wasn’t saying The Daily Show isn’t funny (not that she’d be all that wrong if she was) March 23 I’d say a tad too much was made of Tina Fey’s recent comments in an interview with Reader’s Digest (No, seriously! Reader’s Digest!) with regard to The Daily Show.